Honeymoon!

Sometimes when I blog about really great things, the song "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds plays in the backround...

When planning our wedding, we weren't really sure if we could go on a honeymoon...I had already taken a lot of time off of work that month and still needed more time away to take my Oral Board Exam in pediatric dentistry. Its hard to make your staff take almost a 50% paycut because you aren't there! But, after hemming and hawing about mini-trips to Chicago or Niagara Falls, and then taking a bigger trip at Christmas, we said, "what the heck, we're only doing this once, let's do it right!" Here's Jeremy celebrating our good decision on the 2nd floor of the Moana Surfrider hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was the most amazing hotel ever! (Except for maybe the Greenbrier of my past posts...) It is the oldest hotel on Oahu, completely open-air, and felt like taking a trip back to the 1900's. Lots of rocking chairs and history. So, so cool.

This is our view from our room at the Moana. You could see Waikiki Beach and Diamondhead perfectly...we didn't want to leave our balcony!

Later in our week, we flew to Maui...we biked down Haleakala, an active volcano great after watching the sunrise from the summit! Great suggestion, Tracy!

 After a freezing cold experience on Haleakala, we spent lots of time at the beach, visited the towns of Lahaina and Paia, and ate at Mama's Fish House. Wonderful food again! They had cool parrots and this cool MC Escher sidewalk...I hope you can see it...

This is an example of the quality of food at Mama's Fish House: The Black Pearl dessert. Yummy chocolate mousse with a ganache coating inside a cookie oyster shell. Amazing. I'll never eat anything so perfect ever again. 

More great eating. (Our sight-seeing pictures are on my yet-to-be-developed disposable cameras...) My bestie, Meredith, who used to live on Maui, recommended the Lahaina Grill for dinner. They were very nice and took a picture of us to celebrate the occasion!  As you can see, Jeremy didn't totally follow my advice on suncreen...

In between all this eating (and I didn't even tell you about the conveyor-belt sushi!!), we toured Pearl Harbor, swam and swam and swam, slept for 12 hours straight every night and drank lots of kona coffee. We were happy as clams...or oysters...whatever, it was spectacular. Hopefully one day we can go back to celebrate our 25th anniversary!